CEPR identifies and tracks trends affecting American workers and their wages and benefits, as well as unemployment rates. Topics of these analyses include: Direct Care Work, Minimum Wage, Work-Life Balance, and Work Sharing.

CEPR explores economic policies that affect the U.S. health care system, including Medicare. Our Health Care Budget Deficit Calculator shows how future budget deficits would plummet if we had the same per person health care costs as other developed nations.

CEPR examines the current state of, as well as potential effects of proposed policies on, the U.S. retirement system. Social Security Monitor corrects misleading statements about Social Security by government officials and politicians.

CEPR looks into the potential benefits of a Wall Street sales fee, also called the Financial Transaction Tax. CEPR also analyzes the private equity business model and examines its effects on the sustainability and competitiveness of companies and outcomes for workers.

CEPR examines economic changes in Latin America, including how IMF, World Bank and WTO policies have affected countries in the region, and looks at the economic factors behind political developments there. Specific countries that CEPR focuses on include: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, and Venezuela.

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